About N900 billion is needed to repair some major federal roads linking different states of the federation, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Engr Abubakar Magaji said yesterday.
Speaking during an interactive session with members of the House of Representatives committee on works chaired by Rep Toby Okechukwu (PDP, Enugu), Magaji said they intended to work on at least two roads linking state capitals in the coming years.
He said the roads include Lagos-Ibadan, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Enugu Onitsha, Lokoja-Abuja, Kano-Maiduguri, 2nd Niger Bridge among others.
He said to make the roads reasonably motorable, N900 billion has to be spent on them in 2016, adding that ongoing roads projects are “so many that we can’t finish them in one or two years.”
Okechukwu directed the ministry to submit detailed documents of all its contracts for the committee’s scrutiny.
